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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo sat down with The Hollywood Reporter's Tiffany Taylor to talk all things 'Wicked,' including how the practical sets helped them bring their characters to life, the messages they hope audiences take away from the film and more. Plus, Erivo reflected on her viral moment from THR's songwriters' roundtable, where she encouraged fellow songwriter Julia Michaels to "own" her power. Finally, Grande and Erivo shared that they would love to return to the Broadway stage, ideally together! 'Wicked' flies into theaters Nov. 22.

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00:00You've got a queer black woman walking into the room and there's always you're always met with a little bit of resistance anyway

00:05And I think that when you're met with resistance you you kind of have to find your way around it

00:10And the only way around it is to be comfortable in yourself

00:16After seeing this film it feels like it's coming out at the perfect time because it has so many powerful messages about empathy

00:22Standing up for what's right and also empowering and embracing those who are othered by society

00:28What message resonated with you the most and what message do you hope audiences take away when they go see it?

00:34I mean to me one of the most important themes I think is empathy having the ability to

00:41Change I hope that people will see it and be forced to look outside themselves and maybe look at how they can

00:49Have their I say this all the time, but have their bubble popped

00:53By the people in their lives and how they can become better

00:55I think you can always become more and more

00:59Good Cynthia when you were on our THR songwriters roundtable

01:03You had a really special moment with Julia Michaels where you encouraged her to own her power

01:08I love that clip

01:10Really important for you to be able to sit in the power of being able to make other people's dreams come true

01:15And that idea of owning your power I feel like is really applicable to this movie right for each of you in your own lives and careers

01:23When do you feel like you started owning your power and how did you get to that place?

01:26I think I've kind of had to do it

01:29sort of early on because I don't think

01:33Sort of like the choice isn't I haven't really had the choice to do either because I think whatever room I step into it

01:39I'm all I I come in looking like this

01:42Which is thank God well, I mean not like this, but you know what I mean in the skin and you know

01:47You've got a queer black woman walking into the room and there's always you're always met with a little bit of resistance

01:52Anyway, and I think that when you're met with resistance you you kind of have to find your way around it

01:57And the only way around it is to be comfortable in yourself so that you don't end up swaying from it

02:03Right that doesn't necessarily open all the doors

02:07But it does

02:08Still you a little bit, you know, and at some point the doors will open and mm-hmm

02:14The right ones will

02:15The right ones right right and it's not easy to do no, it's really not easy to do no

02:19So we're forced to yeah, and thank goodness. I'm glad you're doing it. Me too. Why miss Elphaba?

02:30Look at you

02:35You're beautiful

02:37This movie is just magical and on-spiring from start to finish and I feel like a lot of that has to do with all of the real sets and

02:46Mm-hmm and having those versus CGI how did those real practical sets aid you in bringing these characters to life well, I think

02:54the wonderful thing about having someone that's practical is that you

02:58Get to awaken all the senses so there's a you know

03:01You're seeing things you're hearing things, but you can touch things so we don't have to imagine anything there because we can

03:07See it and feel it and it's right there with us and it becomes a character in the movie itself

03:13It meant that we could really see how big the world was so we could

03:19Let that come through these characters and we could imagine flying and we can see the boats coming in the water

03:25And I think that was sort of the wonderful thing and also it allows for us to

03:30In those intimate spaces be in intimate spaces our dorm rooms really us the space that we hold together

03:36I think that's what adds to the magic of the world, you know, yeah, truly

03:43Ariana, I saw you on Broadway in 13

03:472008

03:49What would that young Ariana making her Broadway debut feel about playing this role and being in this movie oh my goodness?

03:57I mean, I

03:58I've said this but I feel like this whole experience has been such a homecoming for me because again I started in theater

04:05We've started on stage and

04:07um, you know to have

04:10Gone so many different routes along the way and to kind of find my way back

04:14Here I think has been really healing for my soul

04:17And I'm just very very grateful to be here with this material that I love so much and with this human being that I love so much

04:24to my left and um

04:27It's just been extraordinary and I think she would be

04:31Having an out of body I'm 31 and I'm having an out of body experience so

04:36The whole thing is just too much

04:38For me now for me then for us now for us then

04:41It's uh yeah deeply I'd be deeply grateful

04:45Watching the movie it seems like being in this musical theater world comes so naturally for you

04:50For both of you after being in this movie would either of you want to return to Broadway the Broadway stage

04:55And if so what would be a dream role for you to take on next I think I'm ready to try something new

05:00I think I'm ready to try something that hasn't been written yet something original I've done a lot of um

05:07material that exists

05:09Revivals and I think

05:11Now is probably the time where we can find something that I can originate yeah, that's thrilling. Yeah. I love that. Yeah

05:19I will do anything. I'm around

05:22And I'll send a tape. I'm kidding. I tell you I know I'm kidding. I would love to be on stage again

05:27I would love to be on stage with this one again. I would love to be

05:30I would fall out to me like yeah, but that could be fun

05:39I would die. You want to try? Yeah, I want to try

05:43I want to try. Do you want to try? We should we'll try come with me what to beat the wizard. Why couldn't puzzle me?

05:50This is your moment. I'm coming

05:52Wicked flies into theaters November 22nd for the Hollywood reporter news. I'm Tiffany Taylor

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